Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), announced the recent acquisition of Clayton, North Carolina based Greenleaf 3D. Greenleaf 3D was founded in 2008 as an Autodesk authorized reseller, focused exclusively on selling Autodesk products and services to the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) markets for both public and private sector clients. The acquisition continues to reinforce Advanced Solutions' Autodesk partnership, while building upon their global foot print and the continued ability to serve its customers at large. Greenleaf 3D will join the Advanced Solutions team in providing customers with an award-winning technical team, multiple industry specializations, valuable professional services, and optimal solutions to enhance customer's productivity and profitability. "We are honored to have the Greenleaf 3D family of customers join Advanced Solutions. Susan Sykes is an exceptional leader who built a wonderful company focused on a high level of customer service. The match with Advanced Solutions culture of 'Customer First' was a

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., announces the availability of localized versions of Vectorworks 2015 in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Norwegian. The Vectorworks line of award-winning software products includes: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks®. The Vectorworks 2015 software contains more than 100 updates and new features in the areas of architecture, BIM, urban planning and entertainment design. In previous versions, the power of 64-bit was only available in the platform’s photorealistic rendering engine, Renderworks, but has now been integrated throughout the entire Vectorworks 2015 product line, providing designers with the ability to handle larger projects, as well as better performance and stability. In addition, designers will observe a revolutionary graphical experience from advances made to the Vectorworks Graphics Module (VGM), which was introduced last year. “We’re very excited to provide the new Vectorworks 2015 version to our European markets,” said Stewart Rom, Chief Marketing Officer of Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “This has

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC®) has announced the release of Brava!® Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3. Brava Enterprise 7.2.1 seamlessly provides users of IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 with the ability to view and collaborate on content. It includes such enhanced features as document compare, threaded discussions, robust redaction tools and more. Custom dialogs also can be created based on business process needs. At last week’s IBM Insight 2014, IGC demonstrated its integrations into IBM Content Navigator, which can tie in to IBM’s Enterprise Content Management systems such as IBM FileNet P8, Content Manager 8, Case Manager, Maximo and TRIRIGA.

Bentley Systems announce plans for an AssetWise Academy. Bentley’s AssetWise software is already being rolled out and further extended to serve as the Highways Agency’s Integrated Asset Management Information System (IAM IS). Now Bentley and the Highways Agency announce plans to provide a virtual environment for introducing and propagating best practices for BIM-enabled asset management, through the AssetWise Academy. David Robertson, Bentley Director, BIM academies, said, “Building on the successful academy development with Crossrail, the goal of the Highways Agency’s new AssetWise Academy is to drive industry best practices and standards, evolve solution templates, capture and recycle lessons learned, and advance asset lifecycle information management across the Highways Agency’s business. This will be achieved through onboarding and awareness sessions, forums, and targeted seminars and working groups within the AssetWise Academy, all supported by project-specific course content created jointly by Bentley and the Highways Agency.” Robert Greaves, Head of IT at the Highways Agency, said, “As the Highways Agency changes our

ModelPort, a new 3D object and model importer for ArchiCAD, is now available on AECObjects.com. A plug-in for ArchiCAD, ModelPort translates 3D model formats such as Alias Wavefront OBJ and Autodesk FBX, into ArchiCAD Library parts. A 3D model or object converted with ModelPort includes a detailed, projected 2D symbol and creates an ArchiCAD material with the original texture maps in place. ModelPort also includes scaling and rotation tools to assist with dialing in the correct size of objects. File management tools allow imported objects to be saved into custom Library folders for future use. “ModelPort will allow ArchiCAD users to access thousands of 3D objects previously unavailable to them,” says Thomas M. Simmons, BIM Consultant. “We are pleased to offer a solution that will make designing in ArchiCAD even better.” There are three versions of ModelPort available: ModelPort OBJ, which converts OBJ and 3DS formats; ModelPort FBX, which converts FBX and DAE (Collada) formats; and a

Configit A/S has been chosen to supply Configit Ace to John Deere. Configit Ace is an enterprise application that manages configuration complexity throughout an entire product lifecycle.  Ace delivers advanced functionality, usability and operational performance to optimize the entire product value chain, integrating with PLM, ERP, CRM and other line-of-business systems, providing a single source of truth for all configuration information. Configit is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices in USA, UK, Germany, India and China. “Configit is considered a global thought-leader in configuration technology and we are proud to be working with an industry leader to support John Deere’s continued growth of providing advanced, innovative products and services to their customers.” said Configit founder and CEO Professor Henrik Reif Andersen Configit’s core technology is based on extensive research in formal verification of hardware, software and constraint solving. The patented technology Virtual Tabulation ensures quality assurance and high performance in configuration solves, and has more than 2 million

SPRING Technologies is funding a new growth stage with a new round of capital investment from its historic partner CM-CIC Capital Innovation together with ACE Management’s Aerofund III and CM-CIC Capital Privé, alongside with an Innovation loan from Bpifrance sovereign investment bank. This €5.0M injection will enable CEO Gilles Battier to energize the company’s development on the international scale, and speed up product innovation through disruptive R&D investments. SPRING Technologies is a French software company dedicated to CNC machine-tool users in all industry areas, allowing them to reduce operating costs, optimize machine fleets and increase the robustness of their manufacturing processes for high-precision, high added-value products. SPRING Technologies’ NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS software range provides comprehensive, integrated control of manufacturing processes that include machining metals and composite layup, optimization of cutting and milling conditions, CAM program post-processing, 3D CNC machine simulation, technical content publishing and machine status monitoring across the workshop. The company generated a consolidated

PTC reported results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014. Highlights Q4 Results: Non-GAAP revenue of $368 million, up 7% over Q4’13 non-GAAP revenue and up 6% on a constant currency basis Non-GAAP EPS of $0.67, up 13% year over year and up 12% year over year on a constant currency basis Non-GAAP operating margin of 26.2%, down 120 basis points year over year and down 130 basis points year over year on a constant currency basis GAAP revenue of $367 million, GAAP operating margin of 9.8% and GAAP EPS of $0.33 Q4 non-GAAP revenue contribution from acquired businesses Enigma (acquired on July 11, 2013), NetIDEAS (acquired on September 5, 2013), ThingWorx (acquired on December 30, 2013), Atego (acquired on June 30, 2014), and Axeda (acquired on August 11, 2014) was $16 million FY’14 Results: Non-GAAP revenue of $1,358 million, up 5% on a reported and constant currency basis over FY’13 non-GAAP revenue Non-GAAP EPS of $2.17, up

Altair announced today that the company will present its latest solutions for virtual product development at EuroMold 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany, from November 25-28. With HyperWorks® 13.0, solidThinking Inspire® 2014, solidThinking Evolve® 2014 and offerings from the Altair Partner Alliance, Altair offers a broad computer-aided engineering (CAE) software portfolio for design and engineering. During EuroMold, Altair will host the Additive Manufacturing Design & Engineering Symposium, part of the show's CAE forum dedicated to simulation methods and approaches, on November 26 in Hall 8/G 161. In addition, Altair and solidThinking will exhibit in Hall 8/G 159. This combined presence supports the message of a profound paradigm shift in product development and will focus on simulation-driven design, design optimization, and design for additive manufacturing. At the booth and during the symposium, Altair and solidThinking will present methods and processes for component design to fully leverage additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The use of 3D

OpenText™ today announced it has been named as one of Canada's top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year. The award recognizes companies for implementing innovative and cost-effective initiatives that every employer in the country can adopt. With more than 35,000 companies invited to participate, OpenText was selected after an extensive application process that included a detailed review of its operations and HR practices compared to others in their industry and region. "I am honoured to accept this recognition on behalf of our 8,000 global employees," said Mark J. Barrenechea, President and CEO, OpenText. "What makes software companies great, great software; who makes great software, great people. Our employees are our greatest asset and it is an operating imperative that we maintain an entrepreneurial culture and esprit de corps where they are empowered to take part in its success." "From the small ripples that each employer's initiatives create, we can recognize a wave that represents the